http://www.ithound.com/ Use IThound RSS Feeds to keep up-to-date with new research on the topics that are most important to you. UDDI and Beyond: The Role of Service Registries and Repositories in Your SOA As the pace of business accelerates, enterprises are increasingly responding to customer demands in real time. To accomplish this feat, many IT departments have turned to service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA is designed to help decrease development expenses and risk of application failures, increase asset reuse and enhance business agility. http://www.ithound.com/ithound/view_abstract?id=1013 The Road to Enterprise-Class SOA An informative paper that examines the benefits and trade-offs of HTTP and JMS, highlights where each transport is best suited and demonstrates how each can be used as part of an SOA. http://www.ithound.com/ithound/view_abstract?id=1015 TIBCO SOA Project Organisation, Staffing and Funding Best Practices: An Introduction The information described within the informative White Paper is part of a series introductory best practice reports for deploying a successful Service oriented architecture (SOA). http://www.ithound.com/ithound/view_abstract?id=1016 Designing Services in an SOA Using TIBCO BusinessWorks An educational document that provides a comprehensive overview of Service Orientated Architecture (SOA). This document will be a useful reference piece for enterprise software architects. http://www.ithound.com/ithound/view_abstract?id=1017 TIBCO ActiveMatrix: Simplifying Heterogenous SOA with Service Virtualization SOA is becoming more prevalent in the marketplace as it continues to prove its value. Companies implementing SOA have reduced time-to-market by 40 to 60 percent, development costs by 20 percent, and maintenance and support costs by as much as 50 percent. Although standards and enabling technologies for SOA have matured, there are still hurdles that can impede an organization’s ability to achieve SOA success http://www.ithound.com/ithound/view_abstract?id=1018 Extending the Benefits of SOA Beyond the Enterprise The service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to building enterprise IT infrastructures has gained widespread acceptance within the IT community. The benefits have been compelling—including the rapid deployment of new functionality that reuses existing code (lowering development costs), flexibility (improving responsiveness to business needs) and reduced maintenance costs (freeing staff to work on innovative new initiatives). http://www.ithound.com/ithound/view_abstract?id=1008 Embracing Service Oriented Architecture SOA and the associated benefits are firmly on the agenda of most IT departments. This White paper demonstrates that a SOAs primary value must be more than solving a technical problem: it should achieve new business value by reducing the IT costs such as TCO and addressing business requirements directly. http://www.ithound.com/ithound/view_abstract?id=1009 TIBCO SOA Governance Best Practices: An Introduction This educational paper introduces the SOA governance issues and provides an overview of an SOA governance model. To gain a stronger understanding of this business critical issue this paper will be an excellent starting point. http://www.ithound.com/ithound/view_abstract?id=1010 TIBCO Services Life Cycle Best Practices: An Introduction A White Paper that provides an introduction to best practices reports for deploying a successful Service Orientated Architecture (SOA). http://www.ithound.com/ithound/view_abstract?id=1011 TIBCO Service-Orientated IT Organizational Structure Best Practices This document introduces SOA organisational issues and provides a model for service-oriented IT organisational structure. http://www.ithound.com/ithound/view_abstract?id=1012